The nacho cheese helps alleviate one of the problems with using the egg as a taco shell: it needs to be cooked too much to allow for a nice, drippy yolk. And, while the Gordita Flatbread is slightly too big for the task assigned to it, the dressed version is a more portable and carbo-loaded choice.

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The new taco loses some of its pizzazz when “dressed” in the Gordita Flatbread.

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“We think it will pique people’s curiosity… People are going to be really passionate one way or another about it,” Missy Nelson, Taco Bell’s dietitian and product developer, said. “I think once you taste it, you’re going to want it again.”

If you want to taste the Naked Egg Taco before August 31, you may be in luck. Taco Bell is allowing customers to reserve tables at “Bell & Breakfast” events in New York; Laguna Beach, California; Austin, Texas; and Chicago in late August to try the new menu item before it rolls out nationally.